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16-letter words containing p, f

  • gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • go-faster stripe — a decorative line, intended to be suggestive of high speed, on the bodywork of a car
  • gold-of-pleasure — a yellow-flowered Eurasian plant, Camelina sativa, widespread as a weed, esp in flax fields, and formerly cultivated for its oil-rich seeds: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • grant of probate — a certificate stating that a will is valid
  • grapefruit juice — nectar of the grapefruit
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • grim file reaper — (storage, operating system)   (GFR) An ITS and LISP Machine utility to remove files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure, especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape). See also prowler, reaper. Compare GC, which discards only provably worthless stuff.
  • group identifier — (operating system)   (gid) A unique number, between 0 an 32767, identifying a set of users under Unix. Gids are found in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group databases (or their NIS equivalents) and one is also associated with each file, indicating the group to which its group permissions apply.
  • half life period — Physics. the time required for one half the atoms of a given amount of a radioactive substance to disintegrate.
  • haptic interface — (interface, hardware)   A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove.
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
  • high-pass filter — a filter that allows high-frequency electromagnetic signals to pass while rejecting or attenuating others below a specific value.
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • hopfield network — (artificial intelligence)   (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
  • house of worship — house of God.
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • hyperflexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
  • imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
  • imperfect market — a market where buyers or sellers can influence the market, and there is a lack of product information
  • imperfectability — The quality of not being perfectable; of being forever imperfect.
  • imperfectibility — The state or quality of being imperfectible.
  • imperfectiveness — (grammar) The state or quality of being imperfective.
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
  • knock for a loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
  • lady of pleasure — a prostitute.
  • land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
  • law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • lay oneself open — to make oneself vulnerable (to criticism, attack, etc)
  • left parenthesis — (character)   "(". ASCII character 40. Common names: left paren; left parenthesis; left; open; paren (")" = thesis); open paren; open parenthesis; left parenthesis; left banana. Rare: so (")" = already); lparen; ITU-T: opening parenthesis; open round bracket, left round bracket, INTERCAL: wax (")" = wane); parenthisey (")" = unparenthisey); left ear. Paired with right parenthesis (")").
  • line of position — a line connecting all the possible positions of a ship or aircraft, as determined by a single observation. Abbreviation: LOP.
  • liver of sulphur — a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • mallowpuff māori — a Māori who is considered to behave like a white person
  • matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
  • misspecification — An incorrect specification.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
  • newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
  • nonprofessionals — Plural form of nonprofessional.
  • nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • offensive weapon — an instrument designed to be used in attack, or an object which may be used in attack
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